License Plates

[lesz]

Might help to start with stats not 2 years old.

The FBI says crime is down.
https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-rele...y 26.4 percent,also decreased by 15.1 percent.

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[rhougey]

The FBI says crime is down.
https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-rele...y 26.4 percent,also decreased by 15.1 percent.

Easy to say if you change your definition and corrupt your data.

 

[lesz]

Easy to say if you change your definition and corrupt your data.

damn corrupt FBI

 

[EasyPass]

Or just be like Steve Jobs and don't mount one on your car, ever. ?

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-car-apple-ceo-license-plates/story?id=14834608

 

[Sikkun]

The FBI says crime is down.
https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-releases-2024-quarterly-crime-report-and-use-of-force-data-update#:~:text=Murder decreased by 26.4 percent,also decreased by 15.1 percent.

Hence why showing 2022 numbers in 2024 isn’t the most relevant.

 

[lesz]

Hence why showing 2022 numbers in 2024 isn’t the most relevant.

which is why those stats compare Q1 ‘24 with Q1 ‘23

 

[Sikkun]

which is why those stats compare Q1 ‘24 with Q1 ‘23

I don’t think we are disagreeing with each other.

 

[spicy_taco]

When you're driving in public, other people can see your licence plate.

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In isolation, these pieces of data are sensitive personal information that comprise your identity, and they cannot be concealed in the respective context by virtue of the way they work. But it's when there are connections formed between them that it becomes a problem.
Posted by aqhgfhsypytnpaiazh on Reddit

I think the biggest threat with having personal identifiable data online is that it becomes available for automated bots to scrub it. It's one thing for your license plate to be seen by other drivers in public. It's another when it becomes available for someone to build a relational database in a fraction of the time.

 

[Jeff-NoVA]

Hence why showing 2022 numbers in 2024 isn’t the most relevant.

Those numbers are year over-year from 2023 to 2024. It's recent data. It's annoying when the facts don't align with feelings, I know. Anyhow, without going off track into forbidden topics, I agree with OP's point - it's likely nothing but why put that extra data point out there?

 

[alexgorod]

Easy to say if you change your definition and corrupt your data.

Do you need to do both, change and corrupt?

 

[Sikkun]

Those numbers are year over-year from 2023 to 2024. It's recent data. It's annoying when the facts don't align with feelings, I know. Anyhow, without going off track into forbidden topics, I agree with OP's point - it's likely nothing but why put that extra data point out there?

I would love to know how the 2022 numbers that started the conversation are year over year from 2023 to 2024.

We had 2024 data in 2022!? Damn.

But good job on trying to work in the personal jab. More amusing given I was actually agreeing with the people saying it’s down currently….

 

[alexgorod]

Thank you @Old_Norm for reminding us. Of course, it's a personal choice and assessment of risk that each is comfortable with.

 

[AKgrampy]

Attack accepted ? Unfortunately rural crime is on the rise.
" In the rural areas where the American dream of pastoral peace is most cherished, robbery rates rose by 44% in 2022 after a two-year decline. This shift is further accentuated in the rates of aggravated assault, which have not only risen in urban areas but have skyrocketed in non-urban areas.
Time Magazine Mar 13, 2024

Not to be too cynical but this, if accurate, can be prevented by blurring our license plates?

 

[spicy_taco]

Makes sense.
It's a risk assessment.
But I could post my physical address in the picture as well, and I don't think the risk for me would increase much. Even the bad guys don't seem to want to go through the trouble of looking for mischief this far out in the boonies.


Well, That's about all the attack I got in me this morning, good sir.

To be fair, a person doesn't have to drive out to your physical location to cause trouble for you. If they can build a profile of you from scrubbing all the different pieces of your online presence it's simple for them to steal your identity and make your life miserable.

Again, it's up to each person to decide the risks they care about, but the older I get the more I wish I had a smaller online footprint from my younger days.

 

[Snakebitten]

To be fair, a person doesn't have to drive out to your physical location to cause trouble for you. If they can build a profile of you from scrubbing all the different pieces of your online presence it's simple for them to steal your identity and make your life miserable.

Again, it's up to each person to decide the risks they care about, but the older I get the more I wish I had a smaller online footprint from my younger days.

True.
And if the last ingredient left to successfully steal my identity is the license plate on my car...... Well, I'm toast anyway.

I'm old, but I pretty much participated in "the internet" since Gore invented it. ?
Although I don't have any presence on any of the big social media platforms, it's too late for me to erase my digital footprint.

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